The Imperial Projects of Mr. McCain

One Republican and two Democratic presidential contenders remain in the race; the former owes his success to independent voters or moderate Republicans, while the Democrats are still battling it out.

In grabbing the Republican presidential nomination, Senator McCain has departed from party orthodoxy regarding political finances, worked on restoration of diplomatic ties with Vietnam, denounced torture and rejected tax cuts decided by the current president without an accompanying reduction in public spending. Above all, he is locked in a debate with the extremists of his party as far as immigration and the imposition of the religious right's “traditional values” on all Americans.

As for foreign policy, the senator from Arizona fares well with the most hallucinating hawks of his party. This is why many neo-cons rallied behind him. A perfect image the champion of a “Judeo-Christian nation” opposing “Islamo-fascism”, he intends on “winning” the war in Iraq, “frontline of the war against terror.”

Against a backdrop of maintained commercial liberalism, the senator’s expected diplomacy includes a continuation of the war in Iraq with increased material; an increase in military spending; hard-line relations with Russia; the creation of a “League of Democracies” in substitution of the UN, hence bypassing its charter and encumbrances when the US and its allies decide to interfere on the world stage and, a pugnacious approach toward relations with China and the recalcitrant nations of Latin America, in particular Venezuela.